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Sep 27, 2020
Has baseball been this soothing lighthouse, a guide toward a sliver of normal in the novel coronavirus pandemic? Or, in Washington, did it only lead to more stress?
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Sep 27, 2020
Saudi Arabia and Russia don't agree on how to approach faltering oil demand. We've already seen where such a standoff can lead.
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Sep 27, 2020
Rio Tinto's demolition of a 46,000-year-old Australian site has highlighted the need to better protect Aboriginal land rights.
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Sep 27, 2020
A Montana judge ruled Friday that William Perry Pendley, the effective director of the Bureau of Land Management, had failed to get Senate approval and had stayed beyond the limit allowed under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. As a result, his actions while at BLM for more than a year might be invalid, throwing into doubt a wide range of decisions.
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Sep 27, 2020
U.S. companies have been notified that they will now need a license to export certain technology to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., according to a copy of the Commerce Department letter reviewed by The Washington Post.
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Sep 26, 2020
There's reason to be optimistic that the luxury goods industry will rebound from Covid-19, but expect an M&A frenzy when it does.
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Sep 26, 2020
A UN treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons has no chance whatsoever of achieving its stated goal. We should support it all the more.
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Sep 26, 2020
Hot technology startups have traditionally raised the cash they needed to break into the big time through initial public offerings. IPOs became synonymous with instant wealth for company founders and those lucky enough to buy those shiny new shares. Then music-streaming service Spotify Technology SA went a different route, going public through a method called direct listing. Why a direct listing? While Spotify didn't need new cash, its investors wanted to cash out. Workplace messaging platform S
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Sep 25, 2020
Hot technology startups have traditionally raised the cash they needed to break into the big time through initial public offerings. IPOs became synonymous with instant wealth for company founders and those lucky enough to buy those shiny new shares. Then music-streaming service Spotify Technology SA went a different route, going public through a method called direct listing. Why a direct listing? While Spotify didn't need new cash, its investors wanted to cash out. Workplace messaging platform S
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Sep 25, 2020
You can scan any website for privacy — trackers, cookies, and even keyloggers — with the free Blacklight from The Markup.
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Sep 25, 2020
State officials hope an agreement will act as a firewall against challenges from President Trump on the legitimacy of vote-by-mail.
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Sep 25, 2020
Good writing can rescue you from routine.
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Sep 25, 2020
What happens to the competition if a player tests positive for covid-19? Riot says it hasn't yet decided.
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Sep 25, 2020
Governments facing a choice between supporting jobs or letting the economy take its course in the pandemic are frequently opting to back their workers, even if measures may only offer temporary relief. U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak's introduction of a new six-month scheme to subsidize wages of people in part-time work, even as an earlier program was being phased out, is just one example of a global phenomenon.
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Sep 25, 2020
Even as the trade war was crimping the flow of goods between the U.S. and China, the Chinese government was opening doors in another arena: Inviting in more foreign banks, insurance providers and other financial services companies. China has also been making it easier for foreigners to buy its stocks and bonds — something many fund managers are required to do now that major index compilers are including Chinese assets in their gauges -- to the growing dismay of some U.S. politicians. The take-up
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Sep 25, 2020
Apollo is facing off with former LBO Caesars Entertainment for U.K. bookie William Hill. The last time it got into such a situation, it ended badly.
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Sep 25, 2020
Shareholder proposals from small investors are credited with pushing big companies to improve their record over the past decade on social issues such as climate change, social justice and human rights.
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Sep 25, 2020
A new survey lays bare the intangible consequences of illness, lockdown and quarantine on the world's children.
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Sep 25, 2020
HOUSE OF THE WEEK | The Seilheimers prepare to leave their stately hilltop haven in Orange, Va.
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Sep 25, 2020
Departure of the American motorcycle icon reflects poorly on both company and Modi's economic program.
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Sep 25, 2020
Black parents feel it's very important that their children earn a college degree, Michelle Singletary writes. But a degree doesn't necessarily confer the same advantages it does for Whites.
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Sep 25, 2020
Before the coronavirus outbreak, 2020 was to be a crucial year for automakers selling electric vehicles in China, with several industry titans opening factories and rolling out new models. The country already has more EVs than any other, thanks to government policies encouraging production and generous subsidies to help consumers buy them. But sales had been sputtering even before the pandemic due to a slowing economy. While electrification may be an irreversible trend, the shift is slow.
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Sep 25, 2020
New legislation in India aims to fundamentally overhaul the way farm goods are produced and sold in the country of 1.3 billion people, almost half of whom depend on agriculture for their livelihood. A decades-old system of farmers selling mainly through state-run wholesale markets is being opened up in what Prime Minister Narendra Modi says marks a watershed moment that will help make India more self-reliant. Opposition parties and even one of Modi's allies say it will leave those working the la
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Sep 25, 2020
Citizens of Chile are scheduled to vote Oct. 25 on a referendum that may clear the way for a re-write of the country's constitution, a key demand stemming from a period of civil unrest in late 2019. Polls show support for a new constitution at about 70%, though the issue is provoking acrimonious debate. For those on the left, overhauling the charter drawn up during the 1973-1990 military dictatorship is the only way to hold together a nation riven by months of violent protests and secure improve
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Sep 25, 2020
Eight months after the coronavirus outbreak was declared a global health emergency, countries around the world have seen vastly different results from their efforts to fight the pandemic. The outcomes have been driven by factors both in and out of the control of individual nations, with some common threads emerging:
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Sep 25, 2020
As American growers harvested summer crops, the migration of seasonal farmworkers who were infected with the virus represented a growing health and humanitarian crisis.
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Sep 25, 2020
For businesses such as Lemonade, whose executives appeared in branded masks for their IPO, it's a chance to demonstrate their socially conscious identity
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Sep 25, 2020
The GM-Nikola fiasco should make investors take a harder look at where the value really lies.
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Sep 25, 2020
Governments facing a choice between supporting jobs or letting the economy take its course in the pandemic are frequently opting to back their workers, even if measures may only offer temporary relief. U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak's introduction of a new six-month scheme to subsidize wages of people in part-time work, even as an earlier program was being phased out, is just one example of a global phenomenon.
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Sep 25, 2020
Bank executives are worried about continued remote working. After all, being away from the office is bound to affect how employees behave.
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Sep 25, 2020
The luxury company's debut debt will pay out a penalty if Chanel fails to hit its green targets. That's to be applauded.
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Sep 24, 2020
"There's nothing surprising in this," said Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute. "It's just an ongoing crisis in the labor market."
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Sep 24, 2020
California's prohibition on the sale of new fossil-fuel cars from 2035 doesn't seem all that radical.
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Sep 24, 2020
Amazon will wade into the game-streaming waters already occupied by Microsoft and Google.
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Sep 24, 2020
Amazon's new product lineup again pushed the boundaries of where and how we bring surveillance into our lives.
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Sep 24, 2020
Byrne Murphy and Bill Conway brought DigiPlex back from the brink with their personal money, granular management and a long-term mindset.
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Sep 24, 2020
Clients can benefit by listening, asking questions and embracing patience
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Sep 24, 2020
Long before the U.S. tightened its borders to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, President Donald Trump set about reshaping America's immigration system with a nationalist and isolationist bent.
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Sep 24, 2020
When people go to a video game museum, they want to play video games. That's a big obstacle to reopening.
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Sep 24, 2020
The accounts seemed to be focused on Europe and Asia, but the takedown shows Russia is still active in posting disinformation.
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Sep 24, 2020
The Washington Post's picks of noteworthy residences on the market.
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Sep 24, 2020
Some employers are shifting from simply talking about better sleep — or giving employees tools to track it — to helping them with what to do about it.
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Sep 24, 2020
Financial records show that a number of publicly traded firms paid dividends and bought back stock after receiving taxpayer-backed SBA loans.
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Sep 24, 2020
TOWN SQUARE | In the District, the median household income covers 13.5 percent of the median home price.
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Sep 24, 2020
Experts on authoritarianism have expressed alarm over the use of federal powers and agencies to monitor, attack and punish perceived political opponents.
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Sep 24, 2020
A record 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. But some companies pledged to hold off on job cuts, and are offering workers a financial cushion.
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Sep 24, 2020
Wind and solar power are the main focus in the fight against climate change, but there are sources of greenhouse gases they can't clean up. Manufacturing steel, cement and chemicals has traditionally required fossil fuels, either to burn to create the extreme temperatures needed, or as raw materials and catalysts for chemical reactions. That's why hydrogen is becoming the new climate bet. It burns far more cleanly than fossil fuels, can stand in for carbon in some reactions and so-called green h
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Sep 24, 2020
Newly obtained records appear in conflict with months of Postal Service assertions that blamed lower-level managers for strategies tied to delivery delays.
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Sep 24, 2020
The average for the popular 30-year fixed rate mortgage rose to 2.90 percent this week, still near historic lows.
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Sep 24, 2020
A junior staffer is instructed by bosses to "call them out" if they forget to wear masks at work. But they're still not changing their careless ways.
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Sep 24, 2020
Discovery Inc. is quietly nailing guilty-pleasure reality-TV programming on its TLC and HGTV channels. Netflix and HBO should take notice.
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Sep 24, 2020
Weeks of backroom talks have only led to an increasingly bitter feud.
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Sep 24, 2020
The plan calls for "buffer seating," sanitizer stations in common rooms and one-way hallway traffic patterns to avoid "bottlenecks"
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Sep 24, 2020
President Alexander Lukashenko remained mired in the biggest political crisis of his 26-year rule in Belarus as riot police confronted daily street protests that showed little sign of fading over the outcome of the Aug. 9 election, which critics denounced as rigged. His bid for a sixth consecutive term seemed a formality until opposition groups united behind a little-known challenger. As events unfolded, Russia, the European Union and the U.S. were jostling for influence in this strategically im
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Sep 24, 2020
After a quarter century serving as the global arbiter of commerce, the World Trade Organization is facing an existential moment in an era of rising protectionism. The U.S. under President Donald Trump has called for a fundamental reset at the institution and sabotaged its ability to settle disputes. A key U.S. goal at the WTO has been to challenge China's state-led approach to trade and investment, an aim shared by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Acknowledging that the WTO has faile
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Sep 24, 2020
Earning a salary while staying safe at home is a luxury. But the drawbacks shouldn't be ignored, either.
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Sep 23, 2020
Black K-pop artists and fans struggle to fit into a genre quickly going mainstream. Their sense of isolation is emblematic of the growing pains of K-pop, as the multibillion-dollar industry tries to respond to the demands of the Black Lives Matter movement and overcome the missteps of the past.
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Sep 23, 2020
Charlie Scharf apologized in a memo to the entire company "for making an insensitive comment reflecting my own unconscious bias."
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Sep 23, 2020
The Justice Department asked Congress on Wednesday to adopt a new law that could hold Facebook, Google and Twitter legally accountable for the way they handle some controversial content on the Web, as the Trump administration ratchets up its attacks on social media sites ahead of the 2020 election.
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Sep 23, 2020
Trump insists protesters are now throwing Bumble Bee tuna cans, in the midst of pandemic tuna shortage
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Sep 23, 2020
TikTok has withdrawn its lawsuit against the Trump administration as it works against a deadline to avoid a deal in the U.S.
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Sep 23, 2020
Though business conditions and outlooks have improved, the Business Roundtable survey says the path to economic recovery remains fragile.
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Sep 23, 2020
It's a new crime but it isn't new. It has a silly name but it's no joke. Spoofing, a way to manipulate financial markets for illegitimate profit, is blamed for undermining the integrity of trading and contributing to the scariest crash since the financial crisis. Spoofers trick other investors into buying or selling by entering their own buy or sell orders with no intention of filling them. That creates fake demand that pushes prices up or down. Long considered disreputable but rarely dangerous,
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Sep 23, 2020
Owners reported their cars weren't connecting to the Internet Wednesday, though the issue appeared to have been resolved a short time later.
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Sep 23, 2020
With the stock markets on a wild ride for much of 2020, the predictability and reliability of Social Security are more important to Americans than ever.
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Sep 23, 2020
After a surge in demand from homebound fitness buffs, Peloton faces a raft of challenges and potential stiff competition from heavy hitters.
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Sep 23, 2020
The state-funded German safety net known as Kurzarbeit, which keeps salaries flowing to employees even when their work has dried up, is getting renewed attention as governments around the world grapple with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. Countries from France to Italy and the U.K. have rolled out similar schemes, and have been discussing whether to prolong them. Germany's relatively contained rise in unemployment stands in stark contrast to the U.S. labor market experience, un
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Sep 23, 2020
Another brutal coronavirus move
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Sep 23, 2020
Two of the founders of Dreamhaven delve deeper into their vision for their new game development and publishing company.
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Sep 23, 2020
In another outgrowth of the pandemic, service sector workers say they are losing out on tips and other pay predicated on engaging customers.
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Sep 23, 2020
A ban of American companies will likely backfire.
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Sep 23, 2020
Its rowhouses are architectural stars, but residents love its diversity and vibrancy even more.
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Sep 23, 2020
Both the Apple Watch Series 6 and Fitbit Sense have new blood-oxygen apps, but The Washington Post's Geoffrey Fowler says they're mostly useless.
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Sep 23, 2020
The beloved former chief executive is leading a sizable team of Blizzard alums in the development of two new games.
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Sep 23, 2020
TOWN SQUARE | The apartments have floor-to-ceiling windows with black-out shades, plank flooring, a washer and dryer, barn doors, built-in bookcases and black matte fixtures.
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Sep 23, 2020
Rome is sounding out UniCredit about buying a stake in Monte Paschi. Italian taxpayers may end up the victims again.
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Sep 23, 2020
Both the Apple Watch Series 6 and Fitbit Sense have new blood-oxygen apps. They're mostly useless.
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Sep 23, 2020
REAL ESTATE MATTERS | Since the husband is considering retirement, he should not retire until they have completed the refinance.
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Sep 23, 2020
The industrialized world has been spewing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases faster than they can be contained for centuries. Climate change, and growing popular frustration about the inadequate response, is pushing countries to take action, or at least say they will. Becoming carbon neutral -- also known as climate-neutral or net zero -- is now a legal requirement in some countries, while European authorities are adopting legislation to become the first net zero continent. Even oil compa
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Sep 22, 2020
China and India, two nuclear-armed powers with a combined population of 2.7 billion, have gathered thousands of troops at a disputed border in a remote area of the Himalayas. It's the latest flare-up in a long history of border troubles between the two countries that includes a war in 1962 and a skirmish near Bhutan in 2017. The tensions along the 3,488 kilometer (2,167 miles) un-demarcated border come at a time of growing Chinese assertiveness and as India grapples with the coronavirus pandemic
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Sep 22, 2020
The Wednesday meeting comes nearly four months after the president signed an executive order that opened the door for the federal government to oversee the way tech companies police political speech online.
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Sep 22, 2020
The company aims to build a battery that can make the transition to electric vehicles more sustainable.
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Sep 22, 2020
In most cases, it's impossible to pinpoint how someone caught SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. It is too small to see with the naked eye, so its infectious journey can't be tracked from one person to another. That leaves scientists and health authorities gleaning the most likely transmission pathways from the available evidence and what's known about how other respiratory pathogens spread. Close personal contact with infected people via mouth and nose secretions was thought to b
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Sep 22, 2020
Under the new proposal, the Department of Labor — which has the power to investigate worker complaints about misclassification — said it would adopt a few guidelines to test whether workers should be considered employees or contractors.
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Sep 22, 2020
The Government Accountability Office recommended that the Treasury Department and the IRS do more to update estimates of eligible recipients who have yet to file for a stimulus payment.
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Sep 22, 2020
The meeting between the administration and top Republican attorneys general threatens to escalate the White House's dispute with Silicon Valley as the industry is increasingly taking action against the president's most controversial posts.
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Sep 22, 2020
Morgan Stanley, Walmart and others at NYC's climate week make new vows to cut carbon emissions. Meanwhile General Electric announced it will no longer build new coal-fired power plants. And with the pandemic sweeping the country, climate week has been a lot quieter than it had been last year.
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Sep 22, 2020
Residents are attracted by the architecture and sense of community.
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Sep 22, 2020
A couple with three kids deals with pandemic in a new home in Howard County, Md.
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Sep 22, 2020
Spain, France and the U.K. have a shot at turning things around provided Covid-19 fatigue doesn't take hold.
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Sep 22, 2020
Tesla built its name on electric vehicles that could travel hundreds of miles farther than their competitors. Now it aims to build a battery that can last four or five times the lifespan of a typical internal-combustion-engine car.
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Sep 22, 2020
Supporters of a U.S. conspiracy theory known as QAnon have been a feature on the fringes of American politics since late 2017. The internet-fueled movement has crept closer to the mainstream, with some believers advancing in campaigns for congressional seats and President Donald Trump, given the opportunity to throw cold water on the movement's rhetoric, choosing instead to say he appreciates how its adherents seem to like him.
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Sep 22, 2020
The action underscored how online actors in China have taken an interest in election-year politics in the United States.
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Sep 22, 2020
A report by Sens. Bob Casey and Ron Wyden, citing federal data, criticized the Trump administration for doing too little to protect nursing home residents as the disease spiked in the Sun Belt states this summer.
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Sep 22, 2020
House and Senate Democrats criticized a Defense Department decision to re-purpose $1 billion in coronavirus funds and spend it on defense capabilities.
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Sep 22, 2020
A darkly funny game about the kind of work we do today.
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Sep 22, 2020
Amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, soccer adversaries have joined forces to raise money for their beloved tavern.
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Sep 22, 2020
Shortly after Congress passed the Cares Act, the Pentagon began directing pandemic-related money to defense contractors.
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Sep 22, 2020
The heads of the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department appear before Congress as negotiations around a new coronavirus relief bill have almost entirely fizzled.
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Sep 22, 2020
The pandemic sent New York City residents relocating to the Catskills.
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